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Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions
Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preached at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.Correction, instruction or, a treatise of afflictions: first conceived by way of private meditations: afterward digested into certain sermons, preach'd at Aldermanbury. And now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians. By Tho. Case, M.A. sometimes student of Ch. Ch. Oxon. now preacher of the Gospel in London.
London: printed by J.M. for Luke Fawn, 1652London: printed by J.M. for Luke Favvn, 1652
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And when God hath brought the heart once into this frame, sc. to see, and be affected with the sense of its own ignorance and impotency, and to lie in the dust at Gods feet, humbly importuning an effectual Teaching from Heaven; if God should withhold it, he should fail not his promise only, but his own counsel and project: in reference to which God cannot lye; but when he hath prepared the heart to pray, 1He will cause his ear to hear: When God hath engaged the heart in holy desires of saving Instruction, it is not mercy only in God, but faithfulness, to satisfy the desire of his own Creation: 2Good and UPRIGHT is the Lord, and therefore he will teach sinners in the way.
And when God hath brought the heart once into this frame, sc. to see, and be affected with the sense of its own ignorance and impotency, and to lie in the dust at Gods feet, humbly importuning an effectual Teaching from Heaven; if God should withhold it, he should fail not his promise onely, but his own counsel and project: in reference to which God cannot lye; but when he hath prepared the heart to pray, 1He will cause his ear to hear: When God hath engaged the heart in holy desires of saving Instruction, it is not mercy onely in God, but faithfulness, to satisfie the desire of his own Creation: 2Good and UPRIGHT is the Lord, and therefore he will teach sinners in the way.